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As a Solution Test Engineer, you will be a technical individual contributor focused on the end-to-end reliability of the Cisco IQ ecosystem, ensuring that our shared foundation supports both SaaS and on-premises delivery models with confidence.Your ImpactIn this role, you will bridge the gap between platform infrastructure and the customer experience. You will move beyond simple bug detection to architecting UI/API automation frameworks and leveraging agentic AI workflows to ensure Cisco's IQ Platform (React-based UIs and Kafka-based back-ends) remains resilient, performant, and secure.E2E Strategy & Execution: Lead the end-to-end testing lifecycle, designing complex scenarios that validate user workflows, device interactions, and data flows across Cisco network enterprise environments.Automation Leadership: Build and maintain scalable UI/API test automation frameworks for React applications and back-end APIs.AI Innovation: Drive the adoption of Agentic AI (automated test data generation and script refactoring) to build no-code automation flows and optimize script efficiency.Platform Excellence: Support the consolidation of frameworks and common services. 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